MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1059 
POLYPORUS CRATERELLUS PROM NELSON A. NUNEZ VALDEZ, ECUADOR 
(Fig. 1983).- This has heretofore been known from a single collection 
made in Cuba and named at Kew. We are glad of an abundant collection 
from Mr. Nunez to enable us to soak it up and examine it. It is note¬ 
worthy from its deep, infundibuliform shape, perfectly smooth, and 
color of both stem and pileus, leather color I should call it, but 
near Buckthorn brown of Ridgway. The pores are so minute they are 
not visible to my eye and I sectioned it to be sure. Context white. 
Cystidia none. Spores globose, 4-5 (rather than 4-X 5 as I recorded 
at Kew ) hyaline smo o t h. 
It is evidently a very rare plant of our American warm count¬ 
ries and it does not occur in the abundant collections from American 
tropics in the New. York Botanical Garden. 
RADULUM OWENS 11 PROM 3. M. ZELLER, OREGON (Pig. 1984).- As 
published Genus Radulum, page 10, or Irpex Owensii (l.c. page 12). 
This specimen is a better Radulum than an Irpex. In sectioning it 
we note some features that we overlooked. The plant is yellow but 
potash changes it to purplish and applied to the fungus to black. 
The hymenial and sub-basidial tissue is hyaline and strongly different 
from the dark colored sub-hymenial tissue. We believe now the plant 
does have cystidia but they are hyaline, smooth and of similar 
appearance ( though projecting and narrower) to the basidia for which 
we probably mistook them. 
GEOSCYPHA CRENULATA FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Pig. 1985).- Unless (or until) someone works over the named, foreign 
Discomycetes in the museums and critically studies them, the deter¬ 
minations are very much on the order of guesses. We judge this is 
the above species named from Ceylon by Berkeley from the description 
and Cooke’s figure. We also think from the same source it is 
Geoscypha Cordovensis as named from Mexico, also probably Humaria 
Raimundoi as named from the Philippines by Rehm. As to genus it is 
Galaebinia of Boudier, Geoscypha of Cooke, Peziza of Saccardo and 
Humaria of Rehm. The genera of the Pezizae of various authors are 
about as much in accord as the views of politicians on the League of 
Nations. As it seems to be a frequent species in the Philippines 
(at least) we add a few notes. It is a bright red '’scarlet*' (Ridgway) 
with white flesh and exterior. The outer surface white to the eye, 
has under the lens short, hyaline hairs but it is not hairy to the 
eye like a Lachnea. The hymenium is made of asci and paraphyses of 
about equal length, the latter very numerous. They are pale color, 
red under the lens but in mass they form the bright color of the 
hymenium. The paraphyses are filiform not branched and septate and 
pale red but have not granular contents as some similar species have. 
Spores are elliptical, hyaline, smooth 10 X 20 and have two nuclei, 
not &o marked however as often. We expect this will prove to be a 
common species of the tropics and it probably has many names. Four 
collections were received from Mr. Reinking, all growing on branches. 
MERULIUS OCHRACEUS FROM NELSON A. NUNEZ VALDEZ, ECUADOR 
(Fig, 1986 ).- Mostly resupinate, with narrow,, reflexed border. Sur¬ 
face pileate portion and context white. Hymenium ochraceous (ex¬ 
actly color of common Hydnum ochraceum ) tubercular swollen in folds 
